From: | ROBERSON@***.EDU |
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Subject: | Copyrights (Again!) |
Date: | Tue, 6 Apr 93 05:47:48 CET |
someone else's name on it.
It all depends on how closely the adventure follows your own and whether
you can prove the author had the opportunity to copy your idea. That means
having a hardcopy and being able to prove that you had the document by a
certaindate, so they don't think you wrote it up afterwards. The easiest way to
do this
is to print it out and mail it to yourself and DO NOT OPEN IT. Then, when it
comes to the court, you can show them the postmark date before opening it to
reveal your work.
However, if you just notice certain similarities (an interesting NPC, a quirky
situation or device) and the rest of the adventure is not like yours at all,
you're probably out of luck. As I've said before, work is copyrightable but
ideas aren't.
J Roberson